Election Week 1 - Council of Canadians - Video

Changing Planet - Changing Health

Zachary Shahan - PlanetSave Apr 4  '11

Climate change is sometimes portrayed as a victimless crime, but it’s not. Full story here.

Uranium City, Saskatchewan - a Legacy of Cancer

PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: In view of the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, I've decided to "recycle" one of my old stories, below. I wrote it while working as a journalist with CBC Radio in Regina, SK in the late '80s. It chronicles years of cancer, a virtual "epidemic" among workers at the uranium mine at Uranium City, in the extreme north end of that province.

If nothing else, it might provide an insight into the fact that it is not just the power plant phase of the nuclear system which is problematic. Keep in mind, given that Saskatchewan was a leading player in uranium production, the fuel rods melting down in Japan may well have been made from Saskatchewan uranium.  

I even sent it to George Monbiot, hoping to help convince him to turn away from his recent and ill-advised conversion to all things nuclear. He has not responded! 

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1984 - by Larry Powell

Please also read, "How is Saskatchewan Involved in Japan's Nuclear Disaster?"

(I was honoured to have been awarded 1st prize for best radio documentary in Canada that year by the Centre for Investigative Journalism.) l.p.

Save Our Lake - Nature of Things Video on Lake Winnipeg

A mystery lurks in Lake Winnipeg. And it's  one which science is only now waking to.

Watch video here. (Runs about 45 mins.)

Budget 2011 Funding for Weather and Climate Research Inadequate to Meet Canada’s Needs

Canadian Foundation for Climate and Asmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)

                              OTTAWA March 23, 2011  

The Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) is deeply concerned...Details here.

PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: We can only dream the next government will be more "science friendly! l.p.

The Collapse of Globalization

By Chris Hedges Mar 27 '11 - Truthdig

The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. Details here.

UN Wants Certain Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals Placed on a Trade 'Watch List'

1 April 2011, Rome - United Nations chemical experts have recommended that two pesticides and one severely hazardous pesticide formulation - be included in...Details here.

A collection depot for pesticide containers in Manitoba.